A former Director the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Gavs Katiya, says he and officials of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) were usually forced to take the oath of secrecy before speaking with repented Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria’s north-east.
Mr Katiya, now retired, spoke when he appeared as a guest on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Tuesday.
“The first batch of repented Boko Haram fighters – 95 of them – was brought to my office while I was still the director in NDE.
“So, I interfaced with them because the then Federal government asked us to talk to them, to train them to embrace skills,” he recalled.
“Before we were allowed to talk to them, we had to take an oath that when you finished with them, you don’t have to say, ‘I saw this person. He’s one of the repented Boko Haram fighters,’” Mr Katiya said.